ISS 215 QUIZ 9 POVERTY AND HUNGER QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
What is poverty? - Answers *Absolute poverty refers to a situation when a household cannot
maintain some minimum standard of living
*From a human development perspective, poverty means the denial of choices and opportunities for
a tolerable life
*There is no universal definition of poverty; it varies from country to country
Economic Indicators - Answers GNP
Average income
Social Indicators - Answers Longevity
Access to Knowledge
Longevity - Answers *Infant mortality rate (number of children who die before reaching age 1)
*Child mortality (number of children who die before reaching age 5)
*Life expectancy
Access to Knowledge - Answers Literacy rates
Educational achievements
Standard of Living - Answers Access to health services
Access to safe water
Percent of malnourished children
Overall conditions of the living unit
How many people are poor? - Answers *Approximately 1.3 billion people make $1.25 a day and live
in absolute poverty
*77.8 million of 1.3 billion poor people of the world live in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
*Approximately 44 million people in Latin America and East Europe
*In Addition to extreme poverty, nearly half of the world population live in poverty. They live on less
than $2.5 a day
*More than 1 billion children live in poverty
Who are these people? - Answers Rural
People in Urban Slums
Women
Children
Senior Citizens
Modernization theory - Answers *influence by functional perspective
Poor people are lazy
They are good for nothing
Blaming the poor for being poor
*If you are a country and you want to develop you have to do the following:
Industrialization
Urbanization
Modernization
*Poor nations around the globe are responsible for their poverty
World System Perspective - Answers *Influenced by Marxism and conflict perspective
All nations around the globe can be divided into 3 hypothetical groups of nations
Core nations (rich nations)
Periphery nations (poor nations)
*Poverty of poor nations is imposed of them by the rich nations
*Poverty of nations is not caused because of wars, it is the people of that country that is responsible
for it
Culture of poverty - Answers Children born in poor families they internalize everything that reflects
poverty
Biological explanations - Answers *Social Darwinism
Those who are physically and mentally fit; succeed, prosper and others are left behind
Murray and Herrnstein (The Bell Curve Theory) - Answers *Individuals born in any societies around
the globe are born with different IQ's
People with low IQ never succeed in school and will not go to college
Low IQ - low education - influence job - become poor
What is poverty? - Answers *Absolute poverty refers to a situation when a household cannot
maintain some minimum standard of living
*From a human development perspective, poverty means the denial of choices and opportunities for
a tolerable life
*There is no universal definition of poverty; it varies from country to country
Economic Indicators - Answers GNP
Average income
Social Indicators - Answers Longevity
Access to Knowledge
Longevity - Answers *Infant mortality rate (number of children who die before reaching age 1)
*Child mortality (number of children who die before reaching age 5)
*Life expectancy
Access to Knowledge - Answers Literacy rates
Educational achievements
Standard of Living - Answers Access to health services
Access to safe water
Percent of malnourished children
Overall conditions of the living unit
How many people are poor? - Answers *Approximately 1.3 billion people make $1.25 a day and live
in absolute poverty
*77.8 million of 1.3 billion poor people of the world live in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
*Approximately 44 million people in Latin America and East Europe
*In Addition to extreme poverty, nearly half of the world population live in poverty. They live on less
than $2.5 a day
*More than 1 billion children live in poverty
Who are these people? - Answers Rural
People in Urban Slums
Women
Children
Senior Citizens
Modernization theory - Answers *influence by functional perspective
Poor people are lazy
They are good for nothing
Blaming the poor for being poor
*If you are a country and you want to develop you have to do the following:
Industrialization
Urbanization
Modernization
*Poor nations around the globe are responsible for their poverty
World System Perspective - Answers *Influenced by Marxism and conflict perspective
All nations around the globe can be divided into 3 hypothetical groups of nations
Core nations (rich nations)
Periphery nations (poor nations)
*Poverty of poor nations is imposed of them by the rich nations
*Poverty of nations is not caused because of wars, it is the people of that country that is responsible
for it
Culture of poverty - Answers Children born in poor families they internalize everything that reflects
poverty
Biological explanations - Answers *Social Darwinism
Those who are physically and mentally fit; succeed, prosper and others are left behind
Murray and Herrnstein (The Bell Curve Theory) - Answers *Individuals born in any societies around
the globe are born with different IQ's
People with low IQ never succeed in school and will not go to college
Low IQ - low education - influence job - become poor
